More than 155,000 public service workers on strike after deal with government not reached: PSAC

More than 155,000 public service workers are going on strike, the Public Service Agency of Canada (PSAC) announced Tuesday night, after the union failed to reach an agreement with the federal government.

Canada’s largest public service union had set a deadline of 9 p.m. Eastern Tuesday for the two sides to make a deal. With the deadline come and gone, the union’s members — including 35,000 Canada Revenue Agency employees — will now walk off the job beginning at 12:01 a.m. Eastern Wednesday.

“Our issues at the bargaining table have still not been addressed,” Chris Aylward, the union’s national president, told reporters in Ottawa shortly after the deadline passed. Aylward said the union’s negotiators will remain at the bargaining table as the strike goes on, adding the two sides are “still a ways apart.”

Global's Mackenzie Gray has the latest.

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